By: Brian Berger

Ambiguity in a world of song beyond hero and anti-hero.

By: David Smay

Her voice was an unalloyed conduit of broken love.

By: Katie Hennessey

He was alt-country before alt-country was cool.

By: Ingrid Schorr

She didn’t have to sing about crying into her beer.

By: David Smay

Like Brando and Billie Holiday, an inescapable exemplar.

By: Brian Berger

A singer of startling dramatic (sometimes melodramatic) empathy…

By: Brian Berger

Forget the breasts, the wigs, and, recently, the plastic surgery. Consider instead DOLLY PARTON (born 1946), the fourth of twelve children from a farming family in Locust Ridge, Tenn., as she arrives in Nashville, 1964. […]